308 Winchester????

[kemster99]

my bolt actions, i perfer to do my self. chuck it up in the gunvise and pull the bolt out. start at 25 yds. finish by shooting it in at 100 yds.

[retrieverhunter]

Originally Posted by BruceBruce1959

I don't know how anyone could even think about taking a scoped rifle out to shoot it without at least boresighting it.
How can anyone find comfort in doing that?
It only takes a few minutes to boresight a properly mounted scope even if you have to bring it to local gun dealer and have them do it.
Your safety and the safety of everyone around you should always come first,,, boresighting is never a waste of time.

Everyone has his own opinion, and we obviously disagree on this topic.

If you want to boresight, knock yourself out, but the safety comments are totally absurd.

I can mount a scope and shoot one shot at 25 yards, and I will have the gun sighted in within 5 shots. I mount and sight in 25-30 guns a year using this method, and whether you want to believe it or not, it is tried and true.

[kemster99]

Originally Posted by retrieverhunter

Everyone has his own opinion, and we obviously disagree on this topic.

If you want to boresight, knock yourself out, but the safety comments are totally absurd.

I can mount a scope and shoot one shot at 25 yards, and I will have the gun sighted in within 5 shots. I mount and sight in 25-30 guns a year using this method, and whether you want to believe it or not, it is tried and true.

just curious, what yardage are you sighting them in at?? when finished. not doubting you, just haven't heard about this done this way. bolt actions are fairly easy, can you use this method with all rifles?? are you shooting at 25 then calculating for 100yds or shooting 100yds

[retrieverhunter]

I shoot the first shot at 25 yards and move the scope as needed, and to fine tune, I ALWAYS shoot at 100 yards.

[kemster99]

if you are not on paper at 25, then what?? or do you have a LARGE target to shoot at?? i've mounted new scopes that weren't even on paper at 25yds, had to start shooting corners to find where it was hitting at.

[retrieverhunter]

I very seldom buy targets and use feed sacks or print them off the internet. When starting from scratch, I open up a feed sack to allow the most surface area to find the first hit. The worst sight in I have experienced in years was just before Thanksgiving while trying to help a friend sight in a gun for his grandson, and ironically, it HAD been boresighted and wouldn't hit a double feed sack.

Here is a free target site that I use.
FREE TARGETS from TARGETZ.com

[rdrader2002]

Thanks retrieverhunter for the great website for free targets. Sure makes things a lot more interesting that shooting at paper plates. That's what I've been using. Just put a single vertical and horizontal line across the plate with a Sharpie or some other black magic marker and "presto", you have a very simple, very cheep target to shoot at.

I have the footboard to an old bed that I use to tack the targets to. The idea is to tack the top and bottom of the target leaving the center of the target over the opening in the footboard so that I'm not chewing up the wood on the footboard. When trying to sight in one rifle before Thanksgiving, had to tack up four more plates (one off of each 'corner') because I couldn't tell where the rounds were going. Eventually got things under control and onto a single plate.

[guppy11]

bb, ive never had much luck with boresighters. I can get closer by putting the rifle on a good rest, pull the bolt, line up barrell with the target, then dial scope to bullseye. I can get to within 3-4 inches this way. Every time ive tried a boresighter I can't hit a sight in target at a hundred yards.

[BruceBruce1959]

I know boresighting isn't 100% perfect and I know sometimes the person boresighting the scope might be hurrying a bit causing the process to be off but
If a shooter isn't at least hitting a target at 25 yards after their scope was boresighted then that tells me there's a problem because I have never seen a boresighted scope that couldn't at least hit a target at only 25 yards.

guppy11, you may not have had good luck with boresighters but by doing what you're doing by pulling the bolt and lining up the barrel to adjust your scope is another way of boresighting but you are boresighting just the same you're just doing it in a crude fashion but for someone to just throw a scope on a rifle and begin shooting that's just scarey to think what could happen.

[sir smackabuck]

is the .308 a good rifle....... The Marine Corps didn't use the Winchester model 70 .308 as a sniper rifle for nothing. GREAT cartridge